<p>Well, since we're all having a good laugh, I'll go out just a wee bit on the edge:</p>
<p>That's it! That's as far as I'm going to go! I swear! :D</p>
<p>Excuse me, but I need to go now. I'm off to the emergency room to fix the ribs I busted while laughing at the pic the troops put together. Back soon.... ;)</p>
<p>Another funny link for all of your Service Academy parents (if I can get it right)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/gigocorp.83986553%5B/url%5D">http://www.cafepress.com/gigocorp.83986553</a></p>
<p>Got what I wanted! I just spotted this on the abcnews website:</p>
<p>Kerry Apologizes as 'Stuck in Iraq' Firestorm Rages</p>
<p>I admire a man who can admit and apologize for his mistakes.</p>
<p>I pity those who cannot, and despise those who blame others for their failings.</p>
<p>So Kerry botches a joke (a joke is all words) that hurts noone physically. George Bush, the new Butcher of Baghdad, botches war, responsible for god knows how many deaths. Doesn't apologize. I'll let you think about that.</p>
<p>It is clear the Republican Party would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy," his statement said." I don't want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues"-Kerry</p>
<p>Or maybe GA and Z are people that greatly value oratory skills among elected officials, that's why they support Bush.</p>
<p>Good Grief MF - there are better places for you to bring your issues. I come to CC for a reason, and that reason has nothing to do with your (or my) political views. MF - please stop. Whatever your intent - CC is not the place to bring it. I am here to help my child with her aspirations. My child is here to gain insight and guidance as a means to reach her aspirations. Other people are here either for guidance or to guide - I have not seen a single post by you that has anything to do with getting or receiving guidance towards an anspiration to attend a SA. Please review your intent and move to some place where it fits. Right now you are simply becoming a reason to stop visiting CC.</p>
<p>Good grief....now we are responsible for "misinterpreting" his words. :eek:</p>
<p>Don't know about you, but I, for one, did not misinterpret anything.</p>
<p>And as far as I am concerned, this is about as far away from a sincere apology and taking accountability that you can get.</p>
<p>Give me a break.</p>
<p>Good for those soldiers in "IraK".... I hope they send him a framed copy!!!
Then again, he would probably "misinterpret" the point.</p>
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<p>I just finished watching it. I'm on my way back to the hospital to have the rest of my busted ribs fixed.</p>
<p>I'm sending YOU the bill, Shogun! :D</p>
<p>In an interview Wednesday on CNN, Boehner (House Majority Leader) said, "Let's not blame what's happening in Iraq on Rumsfeld."</p>
<p>CNN's Wolf Blitzer replied, "But he's in charge of the military."</p>
<p>"The fact is, the generals on the ground are in charge, and he works closely with them and the president," Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said.</p>
<p>So I guess it's contagious.</p>
<p>Posted today on myway.com:</p>
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During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to "the perpetuation of war crimes."</p>
<p>Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran who turned against the war, made the observations in answers to a 1972 candidate questionnaire from a Massachusetts peace group....</p>
<p>"I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown," Kerry wrote. "We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job.'
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<p>Presidential Aide Says Kerry Has a History of Insulting the Troops</p>
<p>From yesterday's ABCNews.com:</p>
<p>Sorry this is so long, but I couldn't link to just his statement.</p>
<p>POWs LAWSUIT COULD FORCE KERRY TO COME CLEAN ON VIETNAM WAR CRIMES CHARGES</p>
<p>When John Kerry slandered an entire generation of men who fought in Vietnam he branded them as "war criminals." Today, much of the same thing is being said about our young men and women in Iraq.</p>
<p>Now, a lawsuit filed in Philadelphias Court of Common Pleas will test the very foundation of Kerrys anti-war persona for the first time. It isnt dubious medals or Kerrys disputed service record in Vietnam that is being called into question. This time Kerry may finally be forced to answer for the events that launched his public career, one that made him an anti-war hero for many American liberals and a turncoat for millions of Vietnam veterans.</p>
<p>The lawsuit challenges the basis, the factual accuracy of then Lt. (j.g.) Kerrys acrimonious testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971. It was there Kerrys public career was catapulted with his now ubiquitous portrayal of American soldiers as murderers, rapists and torturers "who ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam . . . [and] razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan."</p>
<p>For the anti-war, anti-American protesters, the American soldiers are the "terrorists," and the enemies are the victims of a barbaric U.S. military which tortures and murders defenseless civilians.</p>
<p>That false premise, one of the most vicious and enduring smears spawned by Kerry 35 years ago, will also be put to the test once Kerrys true "Band of Brothers" are put under oath in a Philadelphia courtroom.</p>
<p>The background to this lawsuit is long and complex, but even a condensed version is rich in irony and poetic justice.</p>
<p>It had it roots in 2004 with the documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal. Many may recall the film, although it is probably best known for not being seen, suppressed after Sinclair Broadcasting Company courageously announced it was going to air the documentary in its entirety. Thanks to Kerry and his liberal colleagues in the Senate and their enablers in the mainstream media, Sinclair was browbeaten into withdrawing the film, its broadcast license threatened by a Kerry campaign manager in 2004. The films producer, Carlton Sherwood, a Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award-winning investigative reporter, interviewed former POWs for the documentary.</p>
<p>I was among those whom Sherwood, a decorated Marine combat veteran himself, asked to participate in Stolen Honor. I was a POW for nearly six years, held in North Vietnam prison camps, including the notorious Hanoi Hilton, a place of unimaginable horrors torture, beatings, starvation and mind-numbing isolation. When Kerry branded us "war criminals," he handed our captors all the justification they needed to carry out their threats to execute us. Thanks to Kerry, Jane Fonda and their comrades in the anti-war movement, our captivity was prolonged by years. The communists in Hanoi and Moscow couldnt have had a better press agent to spread their anti-American propaganda.</p>
<p>To guarantee Stolen Honor would never be seen by anyone not even theatre-goers the producer was slapped with a libel and defamation lawsuit.</p>
<p>That lawsuit was filed by a long-time anti-war disciple of the Massachusetts Senator. He was one of Kerry's key war crimes "witnesses," one of several on whom Kerry claims he based his Senate testimony.</p>
<p>The lawsuit put a unique spin on the definition of defamation, claiming that Stolen Honor had damaged the public reputations of himself, Kerry and others by simply quoting their own words and criticisms of America during the Vietnam war!</p>
<p>The POWs and the wives of POWs who participated in Stolen Honor refused to abandon the facts conveyed in the film. For some of us, it was the first time since our release by the Communists in 1973 that we were able to have our voices publicly heard, to tell our stories about the consequences of Kerrys treachery. In 2005, we formed a nonprofit organization, the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation (VVLF), to gather records, documents and other materials to form a fact-based, educational repository for students and scholars of Vietnam history and to tell the true story of the American soldiers in Vietnam. The VVLFs mission is "to set the record straight, factually, about Vietnam and those who fought there."</p>
<p>For our efforts, we were promptly sued by two long-time anti-war Kerry followers and VVAW members. It was clear that Kerry not only wanted to punish us for Stolen Honor; he intended to use surrogates to sue us into permanent silence and financial ruin.</p>
<p>Forced to spend huge sums to defend ourselves from these frivolous lawsuits, we have filed a countersuit against these Kerry surrogates and intend to reveal the truth about the lawsuits and their sponsors. We believe that we can prove that the purpose of nearly two years of litigation was to protect John Kerry, to drain us financially and spiritually, and to prevent us from setting the record straight.</p>
<p>You can help our cause <a href="http://www.vvlf.org%5B/url%5D">http://www.vvlf.org</a> </p>
<p>At stake is ultimately nothing less than the integrity of the American military in Vietnam, the honor of the men who served their country, the nobility of those who gave their lives, and the truth of Americas history in Vietnam. Until or unless we do correct the existing record, the American military may never be free of the myths and smears of Vietnam, its honor and integrity cleansed as it fights to defend freedom at home and around the world.</p>
<p>Our mission is hardly over. We hope you will join us in fighting this battle . . . for our soldiers, then and now. For more information about Vietnam, the foregoing litigation, or to make a donation, please access the VVLF website now Go Here Now.</p>
<p>Col. George E. "Bud" Day
Director and President,
Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation</p>
<p>Col. George E. "Bud" Day, USAF (Ret.,) was a POW in North Vietnam for five years, seven months and 13 days. He served in three wars (WWII, Korea, and Vietnam) and earned the Medal of Honor. He is the Air Forces most decorated living veteran. He is the Director and President of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, Inc., an organization created to better educate and inform the public about the Vietnam War, its events, its history, and the men and women who sacrificed to serve their country.</p>
<p>Support Our Important Cause Go Here Now: <a href="http://www.vvlf.org%5B/url%5D">http://www.vvlf.org</a></p>
<p>Did you folks just miss this....</p>
<p>In an interview Wednesday on CNN, Boehner (House Majority Leader) said, "Let's not blame what's happening in Iraq on Rumsfeld."</p>
<p>CNN's Wolf Blitzer replied, "But he's in charge of the military."</p>
<p>"The fact is, the generals on the ground are in charge, and he works closely with them and the president," Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said.</p>
<p>If you did miss the significance of that statement let me illuminate it for you; the House Majority Leader just blamed the problems with the war in Iraq on the American generals. Rumsfeld; he's got nothing to do with the conduct of the war; it's all the generals fault becasuse "they are in charge". Well, if you had been wondering why things weren't going as well as you'd hoped they would, there you have it, straight from the House Leader's mouth.</p>
<p>HILARIOUS HEROES FIRE BACK OVER DEM AND DUMBER CRACK ABOUT IRAQ</p>
<p>Published in today's New York Post:</p>
<p>Does anyone here play guitar?</p>
<p>If so, would you be kind enough to IM me? I have some questions I'd like to ask. </p>
<p><-- Looking to learn to play. :)</p>
<p>Uh, wake up. The average American in the military does have lower wealth/income and minorities are represented in higher proportions. It's not a secret, just because you want to be oblivious to the truth. Go on the Army's site and show me something to the contrary and I will be all ears.</p>
<p>EX. 25 percent of the military is AA and they are only about 10 percent of the population. Do you think it's because, what, they feel indebted to America because of the equal rights they were given from America's inception?</p>
<p>I agree</p>
<p>My son's ethnicity is Native American = minority --calls the prez "evil white eyes"
Has $399 in his savings = lower wealth
GPA probably not too far north of 2.5 = poorly educated like his father
Wants to go Marine Infantry</p>
<p>I wonder if Kerry / Kennedy will salute him after he graduates from the Naval Academy with the Class of 2008.</p>
<p>mf - Kerry's comment was implying that those in the military had bombed out of school, and were therefore intellectually inferior in some way.</p>
<p>Maybe the "average american in the military does have lower wealth/income" as you say, because the government doesn't pay the average enlisted guy enough!</p>
<p>Further, if it is true that the military is composed of lower socio-economic classes & minorities as you suggest, then that implies that Kerry believes that those segments of society can't cut it in school & that's why they're in the military & "stuck in Iraq". (More of his elitist attitude?).</p>
<p>And then he expects us to believe that he "forgot" to add the word "us" in his comment (as in "...and then you get [us] stuck in Iraq"). Who is he kidding?</p>
<p>Anyway, I don't think you or Kerry can dig yourselves out of this one. It's pointless to debate the issue really.</p>